Hope Street

Take away an orchestra's penguin suits and you've got an astonishingly diverse bunch of individuals. Throughout the years, the ranks of Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra have included amateur pilots, cinema projectionists, lexicographers, record producers and rare-fruit growers. So it was never too surprising to find an RLPO violinist moonlighting as a composer. What was surprising was to find one as good as Richard Gordon-Smith.